AMD Radeon RX 580 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295

VS

AMD Radeon RX 580

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 295 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 580 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1340MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

2064 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (185W vs 289W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 580 +936%

6.175 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 295

0.596 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580

VS

GeForce GTX 295

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Jan 2009

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1257 MHz

Base Clock

-

1340 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

999 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

896MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

448bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

111.9GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

-

SM Count

30

2304

Shading Units

240

144

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

28

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

224 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

42.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.13 GPixel/s

193.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

46.08 GTexel/s

6.175 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.175 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

596.2 GFLOPS

385.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

74.52 GFLOPS

Board Design

185W

TDP

289W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Polaris 20

GPU Name

GT200B

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

GPU Variant

G200-401-B3

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

55 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

470 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.3

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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